Arahmaiani is an artist, writer and poet, born in Bandung, Indonesia 1961. Regarded as one of the most influential artists within the development of Indonesian contemporary art, Arahmaiani is an active voice for the marginalised and the repressed in society. Her installations, performances, paintings and video art are significantly shaped by the need to produce a new social consciousness based on her research of social, political and cultural issues. She has been actively performing and exhibiting work in various countries like Indonesia, China, Japan, Australia, USA, Germany, Holland & Canada, etc. And in the last decade she’s been focusing more on community based art projects.